Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page xxxii
... reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . The manner in which this intellectual idiosyncrasy we have been describing gradually affected Amiel's life supplies abundant proof of its ...
... reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . The manner in which this intellectual idiosyncrasy we have been describing gradually affected Amiel's life supplies abundant proof of its ...
Page 55
... reality . In other words , what I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowl- edge . Always the complete , the absolute ; the teres atque : rotundum , sphericity , non ...
... reality . In other words , what I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowl- edge . Always the complete , the absolute ; the teres atque : rotundum , sphericity , non ...
Page 364
... reality only the agents of passion . For all the commoner sorts of being , determinism is true : inward liberty exists only as an ex- ception and as the result of self - conquest . And even he who has tasted liberty is only free ...
... reality only the agents of passion . For all the commoner sorts of being , determinism is true : inward liberty exists only as an ex- ception and as the result of self - conquest . And even he who has tasted liberty is only free ...
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